"When I went there, it was kind of like something out of a horror film," Barker says. "It was like, you know, unbelievable filth all around." But to his amazement, Barker found exactly what he was ...

Acoustic guitar music wouldn't be the same without the pioneering effort of John Fahey, but If Fahey became the face of what he dubbed American Primitive music, a genre of advanced acoustic guitar ...

In the more 'experimental' works I dive into the space created by the guitar and have the feeling that the sounds seem to come from all sides around me. Where they meet, elements emerge, which are ...

If you believe in the metaphysical power of music to transport consciousness across time and space, check this out. It’s probably sometime in the late ’60s or early ’70s, inside some forgotten room, ...

A few years ago, filmmaker Liam Barker was at work on the film that would become his 2015 documentary Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho. Barker's subject was the late guitarist who (along ...